swovelin 11 #1 February 17, 2016 Will people ever skydive on other worlds? NASA has provided a clue. I was pleasantly surprised when I visited a NASA website to check out a number of FREE downloads of posters from the future "Exoplanet Travel Bureau," depicting scenes of humans vacationing on other worlds, all done with a marvelous 'retro-futuristic' look. But, my point is that one of the posters features one of us, a daredevil parachutist diving down from space into the "super gravity" of a "Super Earth." (I am not making this up!) You can see all the posters here: [url]http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/exoplanettravelbureau#HD40307g Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AlanS 1 #2 February 17, 2016 swovelinWill people ever skydive on other worlds? Yes, Read the Kim Stanley Robinson sci-fi series - Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars. Some where in there people are skydiving on different moons in the outer solar system, and if you count people escaping when the Martian space elevator collapse at the start the first Mars revolt that might count as skydiving too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RiggerLee 63 #3 February 17, 2016 Air on Mars is pretty thin. I have a hard time imagining landing a canopy their. It's a shame because wing suiting the Valley could be really cool. I wonder how fast you could fly? Would the wing suit be super sonic? LeeLee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AlanS 1 #4 February 17, 2016 RiggerLeeAir on Mars is pretty thin. I have a hard time imagining landing a canopy their. It's a shame because wing suiting the Valley could be really cool. I wonder how fast you could fly? Would the wing suit be super sonic? Lee You are correct. Actually that was just free fall. What happened was someone sabotaged the Martian space elevator at the start of the first Mars revolt and everyone going up the elevator put on a spacesuit and jumped about before the elevator hit the ground. Most people fell out of orbit and died. The characters in the book were saved, by someone in a ship that was passing by the area and pulling as many people out of the sky as possible before they went in. (Think recuse boat able to save only a few in a sea of 1000s of Titanic passengers in the ocean.) That is why I said. "and if you count people escaping when the Martian space elevator collapse at the start the first Mars revolt that might count as skydiving too. " So it was skydiving with out the canopy part. It was a great book to read. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
